Adaptive geostatistical design and analysis for prevalence surveys

Chipeta, Michael G, Terlouw, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5327-8995, Phiri, Kamija S and Diggle, Peter J (2016) 'Adaptive geostatistical design and analysis for prevalence surveys'. Spatial Statistics, Vol 15, Issue 2016, pp. 70-84.

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Abstract

Non-adaptive geostatistical designs (NAGDs) offer standard ways of collecting and analysing geostatistical data in which sampling locations are fixed in advance of any data collection. In contrast, adaptive geostatistical designs (AGDs) allow collection of geostatistical data over time to depend on information obtained from previous information to optimise data collection towards the analysis objective. AGDs are becoming more important in spatial mapping, particularly in poor resource settings where uniformly precise mapping may be unrealistically costly and the priority is often to identify critical areas where interventions can have the most health impact. Two constructions are: singleton and batch adaptive sampling. In singleton sampling, locations xi are chosen sequentially and at each stage, xk+1 depends on data obtained at locations x1,…,xk. In batch sampling, locations are chosen in batches of size b>1, allowing each new batch, {x(k+1),…,x(k+b)}, to depend on data obtained at locations x1,…,xkb. In most settings, batch sampling is more realistic than singleton sampling. We propose specific batch AGDs and assess their efficiency relative to their singleton adaptive and non-adaptive counterparts using simulations. We then show how we are applying these findings to inform an AGD of a rolling Malaria Indicator Survey, part of a large-scale, five-year malaria transmission reduction project in Malawi.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Adaptive sampling strategies, Spatial statistics, Geostatistics, Malaria, Prevalence mapping
Subjects:	WA Public Health > Statistics. Surveys > WA 950 Theory or methods of medical statistics. Epidemiologic methods WB Practice of Medicine > Medical Climatology > WB 700 Medical climatology. Geography of disease WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 750 Malaria
Faculty: Department:	Clinical Sciences & International Health > Clinical Sciences Department
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2015.12.004
Depositing User:	Helen Wong
Date Deposited:	18 Oct 2016 14:07
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2019 13:10
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/6194

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